Preliminaries

• What This Module Does - An overview of the building module's role and abilities.

Chapter 1: Architecture

• Building Module - Setting up the use of this module.

• Large-Scale Structure - To manage the main, connectors and architecture packages of an Inter tree, together with its major building blocks: modules and their submodules.

• Inter Primitives - The standard set of primitive invocations available in Inter code as generated by the Inform tool-chain.

• Origins - Keeping track of sources of code for an Inter tree.

• Hierarchy Locations - Location and naming rules for resources to be compiled in an Inter hierarchy.

• Location Requirements - A way to express rules for the permitted places where inames and packages are allowed to appear in the Inter hierarchy.

• Translation - A way to express rules for how to translate names from the Inter namespace into the target language's namespace.

• Packaging - To manage references to Inter packages which may or may not yet exist.

• Inter Namespace - To manage references to Inter symbols which may or may not yet exist.

Chapter 2: Blueprints

• Inter Schemas - Building an inter schema, a form of annotated syntax tree.

• Parsing Inter Schemas - A simple API for turning textual code written in Inform 6 syntax into an inter schema.

• Tokenisation - Turning textual code written in Inform 6 syntax into a linked list of tokens.

• Ramification - Turning textual code written in Inform 6 syntax into an inter schema.

• Inform 6 Operators - Order of precedence for Inform 6 operators, regarded as their Inter primitive equivalents.

• Emitting Inter Schemas - To compile Inter code following the model in an Inter schema tree.

• Identifier Finders - Suppose we have an identifier name which we think refers to some symbol in an Inter tree. Where do we look for it?

• Inform 6 Annotations - Parsing Inform 6-syntax annotation markers.

• Inform 6 Syntax Errors - To issue problem messages when parsing malformed I6-syntax code.

Chapter 3: Masonry

• Producing Inter - Convenient machinery for generating individual Inter instructions.

• Value Holsters - Representing compilation contexts, and holding compiled values.